I hate to be generic but since it's rather big and on my website I can't go against Seven Samurai. Though Ikiru and Bridge on the River Kwai are very close in my top 10 of all time, and of course Harvey is always great fun!

bbrown -- some came running really? I never quite understood the appeal of that one.

many of you -- i like the seven samurai but it's not even my favorite Kurosawa

I think mine is probably Singin' in the Rain with runner up honors going out to Sunset Blvd. But i could be swayed towards others. If I'm being honest I'd say the 50s are my favorite film decade even though that's not the "correct" choice. Aren't we supposed to love the 70s most?

It's probably not my favorite of the 50s, all said and done, but for some reason the first movie that popped into my head is the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I think it's just fantastic. I realize it doesn't match Seven Samurai or Vertigo, but thought it was worth mentioning. If only it had been allowed to keep its original ending...

The 50s may be my favorite decade for a variety of reasons, but here are a few:

Ace in the HoleAll the Heaven AllowsAttack!Cairo StationIkiruKiss Me DeadlyThe Man from LaramieNight of the HunterOrpheeOthelloRebel Without a CauseWild StrawberriesThe BigamistNights of CabiriaA Place in the SunVertigo

A PLACE IN THE SUNSINGIN' IN RAINA STAR IS BORNSUNSET BLVDREAR WINDOWSOME LIKE IT HOTVERTIGOALL ABOUT EVEA STREETCAR NAMED DESIREALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWSIMITATION OF LIFEREBEL WITHOUT A CAUSEGIANTNIGHT OF THE HUNTER

i know... boring classics all!

what i feel guilty i've never seen:TOUCH OF EVILTOKYO STORY

what i don't love as much as everyone elseLA STRADAAUNTIE MAMETHE AFRICAN QUEEN

Nathaniel the fifties are your most favourite decade? I don't really like the fifties. I probably need to see more films. And I hate the seventies. The sixties are my favourite... and I forgot From Here to Eternity.

It's probably one of THE close-to-perfect comedies. I think I'm the only person in the world who finds the bloodtype joke funny. "Type O" "Oh?" haha gets me everytime. How Jack Lemmon didn't get his second Oscar that year is a mystery I'll never understand.

This is too hard. There are so many different kinds of movies from the 50s. All the Sirk melodramas, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Brando (Streetcar), Hitchcock, and then the ones that feel more like 40s films (All About Eve, Some Like it Hot, Sunset Boulevard, Singin' in the Rain). Even Ben Hur!

Oh, the 1950s!!!! Anything from Billy Wilder (in any decade). He's my favorite. I also enjoyed Witness for the Prosecution, Marty, Dial "M" for Murder, Rear Window, Rashomon, 12 Angry Men, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,East of Eden, North by Northwest, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Touch of Evil is of course the best film of the decade, with Night of the Hunter, Kiss Me Deadly, La Strada, The Seventh Seal and Sunset Boulevard following.

And I would use any opportunity to also bring up Nights of Cabiria, Some Like It Hot, All About Eve (surely among the three of four best scripts ever written?..), Throne of Blood, The Cranes Are Flying, Ikiru, The 400 Blows, Hiroshima mon amour... ... Fabulous decade it was

I'm disappointed nobody mentioned Paths of Glory. It's my favorite Kubrick movie, easily the most underrated film he made. It baffles me how his other films are staples on the lists of the greatest but Paths of Glory can barely gets acknowledged.

It amazes me how widely appreciated the works of Hitchcock are. Not just great filmmaking, but enjoyable (which is not necessarily the same thing.) I cannot believe I still have not gotten around to seeing "Vertigo".

However, I do love me some "Forbidden Planet". Shakespeare's heroines never looked better than Anne Francis in that non-swimsuit.